How To Install mono-devel on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-devel on Ubuntu.

What is `mono-devel`

mono-devel is:

Mono is a platform for running and developing applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. Mono is an open source effort led by Xamarin. Mono provides a complete CLR (Common Language Runtime) including compiler and runtime, which can produce and execute CIL (Common Intermediate Language) bytecode (aka assemblies), and a class library.

This package contains various development tools and pulls in the default development stack for Mono (which is 4.0 currently).

There are three methods to install mono-devel on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mono-devel Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mono-devel using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mono-devel

Install mono-devel Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mono-devel using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mono-devel

Install mono-devel Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install mono-devel using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mono-devel

How To Uninstall mono-devel on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the mono-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mono-devel

Uninstall mono-devel And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mono-devel and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mono-devel

Remove mono-devel Configurations and Data

To remove mono-devel configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mono-devel

Remove mono-devel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mono-devel configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mono-devel

Dependencies

mono-devel have the following dependencies:

References

mono-devel website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mono-devel package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.